Gong
The concept of classical music concerts for the general public, with tickets sold at the door, was introduced in India by:
Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
The amadinda is an example of what type of musical instrument?
Percussion instrument
The repetitive pattern in the following music example represents:
The isaaju pattern
The essence of Haitian culture is:
Vodou
Which of the following countries is usually seen as the cradle of Afro-Latin music:
Cuba
Descendants of the maroons can be found in four major communities. Which of the following is NOT one of those communities:
Mawu-Lisa
The music used in Caribbean religious rituals retains African antecedents.
True
After 1888, the date of emancipation, Blacks began to enter the Brazilian carnival with bands known as "charangas," that played African instruments. One such instrument, pictured above, is known as:
Xequere
The classic form of samba used in the Brazilian carnival is the:
Samba de morro
The roots of samba can be found in:
All of the above
Which of the following traditions are present in the Brazilian Macumba:
All of the above
The African-derived religion of Brazil takes the names of Candomble in Bahia, the Macumba in Rio, and Batuque in the northeast. Candomble is retained from the Fon and the Yoruba, as in:
Cuba and Haiti
One of the main purposes of the exchange of energy between the master drummers in Brazil, the dancers, and the audience is to:
Call on the Orixas for their blessings.
The Caribbean has seen the rise of a variety of musical forms grounded in the European world view.
False
The roots of Jamaican contemporary Rastafarian musical genres can be found in the music of:
Kumina
Macumba constitutes a direct link to
Samba
Which of the following dances goes back to colonial times in Dominican Republic:
Merengue
In Haiti, rara means “to make merry,” and is inherited from the Yoruba people in West Africa.
True
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